CWA put a pocket guide to the season that includes these tables in the last issue of the California Waterfowl magazine, and usually give a supply of the pocket guide to the check stations for opening weekend. So, you can have the reference and small enough to fit in your wallet.

If a warden was sitting on the levee watching for early shooting to the minute and really wanted to ticket somebody, I wonder if he'd use the area shooting time in the chart or accept 30 minutes before actual sunrise from a web site- the difference might be a minute or 3 max I'd guess? Thanks for links. I always check my watch with the clock at a DFG check station since that is the "official" time I was told.

Hunt hard.

..... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow a duck is watching you.

FYI for ya'all. If you have a cell phone (most people do now-a-days) it will display the accurate time through you cell provider's signal. Even if you have no signal the clock in the phone will have synchronized with the cell system clock the last time it had a connection and will still be accurate. Also, most cell phone have an alarm app so you could actually set start time as an alarm. No excuse for early shooting.

Shooting hours for migratory game birds, including mourning doves, white-winged doves, band-tailed pigeons, American coots, common moorhens, common snipe (jacksnipe), and waterfowl for all of California shall be from one- half hour before sunrise to sunset.

If I hunt a public area that is not controlled, I look up sun-rise time (internet) for the closest city or town where I am hunting. Otherwise the check station time is what we use.

Now if only the greedy a$$holes at delevan on Saturday had this handy little pocket guide on them before they shot 7 minutes early as the rest of us in the a/p area had to clinch our teeth and watch all the birds fly off and not be able to shoot, and sadly by shoot time there wasn't much to shoot at, even better when you call the check station and caltip only to have them say do you know their exact location? And we cannot make it out in time to catch them...........just about went for a walk, nothing angers me more than people who do not care and screw everyone else out of birds, it has happened every time out this season, I just don't get it, where is the courtesy anymore?